Toy bank and money adding aid



i L 3957 L. w. RAPPEPQRT TOY BANK AND MONEY ADDING AID Filed Nov.- 15,

United States Patent O 2,808,199 ToYBANK AND MONEY ADDING Am Lester W. Rappeport, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application November 15, 1955, Serial No. 546,865

1 Claim. (Cl. 232-5) This invention relates to banks, saving and storing devices and the like for money, and particularly to a toy I bank and money adding aid.

The main object of my invention is to provide a special toy bank for coins that is so constructed as to facilitate counting and adding the money inserted therein, even after the money is deposited.

Another object of my invention is to have a toy bank and adding aid provided with `a group of individual coin receiving tubes with slotted caps, for quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, these tubes being supported on a common support to be conveniently near each other to facilitate using any and all of them simultaneously.

A further object of the invention is to have the coin tubes made of plastic or other transparent material to allow inspection from the outside of the contents of the tubes at lall times.

It is likewise an object to have the support include a platform for the lower ends of the coin tubes and a back panel rising from the platform behind the tubes and having the panel secured to the latter in order to obtain a coherent assembly to form the bank.

It is also an object herein to provide la number of special coin-type discs for periodic insertion into the various tubes when predetermined numbers of coins have been inserted in order to indicate such desired numbers of coins as accumulated in these tubes.

A practical object is, of course to have such a special toy 'bank and adding aid that is simple -to manufacture and both simple and easy for even a child to use, and likewise reasonable in cost in order to encourage wide distribution on the market.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will appear in further detail as the specification proceeds.

In order to facilitate ready comprehension of my invention for a proper appreciation of the salient features thereof, the invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawing forming part hereof, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a toy bank and adding aid ensemble made according to my invention and embodying the same in a practical form;

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same toy bank as taken on line 2 2 in Figure 1; and

Figure 3 is a vertical section of the same bank as taken on line 3--3 in said Figure 1.

In these views, the same reference numerals indicate the same or like parts and features.

In most forms of banks used by children, there is no clear indication of the amount of money contained in them, and even when some expedient is used for that purpose, complex structure is involved which increases the cost greatly, not to mention that such banks may be dificult for a child to master yand understand or work.

Upon considering this problem, it has occurred to me that a bank for children should irst of all be simple, and then also can well have separate receptacle sections for diiferent coins, and be made of transparent material, to boot, so that all coins deposited may be seen. As

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a result of such consideration, I have succeeded in producing a toy bank and adding aid along the lines already mentioned, as will now be more fully set forth in the following. i

Hence, in the practice of my invention, and referring also again to the drawing, a base panel 4 of the bank, generally indicated `at 5 forms a platform for a series yof upright upwardly open tubes `6, 7, 8 and 9, preferably made of transparent plastic such as styrene, methyl methlaci'ylate, cellulose acetate or other such material,` or even of glass. Each tube has a bottom 10 that rests upon the platform and is supported at the rear of the structure by an upright back panel 1\1, while a plastic or metal strap 12 formed into a series of convolutions 13, 14, 15 and 16 fitting the mentioned tubes 6 to 9 has the intermediate portions 17, 18, 19 -and ends 20 and 21 secured to panel 11. As the platform and back panel may be made of more or less rigid plastic such as styrene or cellulose acetate or any other suitable plastic, and not necessarily transparent or even translucent, or of wood, the strap 12 with its convolutions and yattached portions may be nailed, or plast-ic cemented to the back panel, if desired. This back panel may be integral with the platform, if found desirable, and the strap 12 may even be cemented to the coin receiving tubes 6 to 9, also.

The open tops of these tubes are fitted with caps' 22, 23, 24 and 25, having appropriate slots 26, 27, 28 and 29 for such coins as quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, for example.

The mentioned caps may be removed from the tops of the tubes when they are full in order to allow for refilling with coins by gradual saving and depositing of coins after the caps have been replaced on the tubes. In this connection, I have included a special feature for facilitating adding the coins deposited in any one of these coin receiving tubes. This feature involves a number of coin size metal or plastic discs 30, 31, 32 and 33 of the quarter, nickel, dime and penny sizes, and each stamped with the corresponding coin values to distinguish them for use with the bank 5.

The arrangement is such th-at when, for example, four quarter-s at 34 have been deposited in tube 6 through slot 26 in `cap 22, a quarter size disc 30 is dropped into the tube on top of these coins to indicate that a dollar lies in this tube. When four more quarters at 35 have been deposited, a second disc 30 is dropped on the second group of four coins to indicate at a glance that two dollars are deposited within the tube, any further coins 36 being yeasily noted as to number. Similar conditions will prevail in the other tubes for the other values of coins deposited, for indicating by disks 31, 32 and 33 when nickels, dimes and pennies have been inserted to equal some standard value decided upon for the bank by the user. Thus, ten dimes are deposited and then a corresponding disc 32 is deposited on these dimes to indicate that this tube holds a dollar. For the pennies, the tube 8 is to receive ten, then a disc 33 to indicate that ten cents have been deposited in that tube, while twenty nickels deposited in tube 7 are followed by a disk 31 to show that also in that tube a dollar has been deposited, and so on. Thus, the coins are easily noted and added by merely inspecting the tubes 6 to 9, and the bank as a whole forms an educational financial aid.

Manifestly, variations may be resorted to, and parts and features may be modified or used with-out others within the scope of the appended claim.

Having now fully described my invention, I claim:

A toy bank and money adding aid, comprising, in combination, a support having a substantially horizontal base wall and vertical back wall, a plurality of upwardly disposed transparent coin receiving tubes mounted upon said base wall and extending vertically above said verticalwall, each of said tubes having flat bottom closures, a strap secured at spaced points to 'said back wall delining loops therebetween for receiving said tubes therein, each of said `tubes being transparent to permit observationv of the contents thereof, indicia` means comprising discs disposed at spaced intervals `within each of said transparent tubes to niark the amount of coins deposited in each tube; and 'a flat slotted ,cap'secured'to the top of each said tube adapted to receive said discs and coins therethrough, said capv being disposed above the upper level of said back wall and adapted to be accessible from all sides, and said upwardly extending vertical portions of said transparent tubes exposing said coins and above said back wall to view lfrom all sides.

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